MY VISIT TO PAKISTAN

On 26 November I went to a place called Pakistan, just above India. I saw all sorts of top people, with names like Zardari, Qureshi and Kiyani. At one meeting I joked that looking at my programme for the day reminded me of the menu at my local indian curry house. Didn't get as many laughs as I expected.

Pakistan is dreadfully hot and dreadfully poor. It's almost as ghastly as South Shields on a Sunday. I am in no hurry to go back. While I was there the top bod called Zardari gave me a message to pass on to "our Indian friends". It was some sort of list with complicated names, places, dates etc. He said it would mark a whole new phase in cross border co-operation (whatever that means). Unfortunately it completely slipped my mind, and I now seem to have lost the bit of paper he gave me. I saw in the news that there was recently some some sort of kerfuffle in a place called Mumbai. I do hope the list wasn't in any way connected. Whoops!